The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

THERE are 200 hotels Of all sizes in Sara
toga.
THE State Of Michigan has shore line
1870 miles long.
AN anti-treating crusade is gaining head
way in Georgia.
KENTUcKY's newest curiosity is a man
with marble leg.
New YORK CITY claims to be growing at
the rate of 5000 year.
GEORGIA railroad property has more
than doubled in value since 1880.
THE oil region of Pennsylvania is said to
be the hottest ground in America.
BoULANGER had grand send-off in Paris
on his departure for his new station.
JOHNS HOPKINS University is soon to be
moved from Baltimore proper to the sub
urbs.
THERE are 1900 women in New York who
receive salaries for singing in the church
choirs.
LOTS of pretty girls, it is said, wear a
nutmeg round their necks as a charm
against malaria.
Two Americans have been arrested in
Mexico for highway robbery, the penalty
for which is death.
SOunby, NAB, 10 Sdlu W udNo
i,100 unmarried men and only twenty
eight unmarried women.
PHILADELPHIA is preparing to celebrate
the centennial Of the Federal Constitution
in September in royal style.
The glorious climate Of California has
produced a wonderful cat that sings
"Listen to the Mocking Bird"
The people Of Berlin are eaters. Last
year they consumed Is, S62 tons of slaught-
cred meat and 1,OOo,o 600 geese.
SCHOOL for wives is about to be estab-
lished in England, the pupils Of which will
be instructed in practical houswifery.
LETTER received at country post
Office in New Hampshire addressed IAN
Ok" was delivered to Miss Ann Knox
THINK Of three miles Of book cases eight
feet high and containing 1000, 600 volumes
That Is the size of the British Museum IL
brary.
THE Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Brad
dock, Pa, are the largest steel rail mills
in the world. The grounds contain thirty
five acres.
1T is said that the investments out West
Of ex-senator Jones, of Florida, have
turned out profitably, and that he will
nave comfortable income.
The new Texas liquor law forbids the
sale Of intoxicants to any person, habitual
drinker or not, whose wife, mother or Sis
ter forbids him the use of them.
The German Postal Department admits
sample packages Of liquids at reduced
rates, to and from this country, under an
order that went into effect July l.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper says: "In yes
terday's storm flash Of lightning went
through this Office on the shafting and
knocked the devil into the cellar"
A DREssMAKER in Portland, Ore, got mad
at a neighbor in the room beneath, and,
cutting hole in the floor, doused the other
woman, while in bed, with hot water.
MRS. MACKAY has presented her tiny
grandson, Prince Colonna, with a magnifi.
cent dressing case, all the appointments
being gold, richly Interested with jewels.
AMERICANS are so numerous in London
this summer that the natives feel almost
as though they were in New York. Lon.
don Is becoming quite q popular suburb Of
America.
CATS and dogs have no protection in Ger
many. They are regarded as beasts Of
prey, and are liable to be shot whenever
they are found on the premises where
they belong.
The Western crop news Of the past few
days begins TO show a perceptible i'm
provement, and at the South the largest
cotton crop of the generation Is predicted
with good grounds.
The new Prince Of Bulgaria's full name
Is Ferdinand Maximilien Charles Leopold
Marie. Born in Vienna February %, 1851
he Is now lieutenant in the Eleventh
hussars Of Austria.
Our familiar word luncheon is derived
from the name given by the Spaniards to
their midday or rather eleven o'clock
neal, which from the hour is called l. once
pronounced lonchy.)
Ar Gilboa, N. Y, they are laughing over
The fact that Mrs. p. II. Richtmyre, aged
eighty-two years, has just completed a
pair OF trousers for her husband, aged
eighty, TO play baseball in.
You've KNEE, Of Jersey City, shot Miss
Miller some months ago because she
wouldn't marry him. She has gotten well
and married him now, probably to keep
him from shooting her again.
AN English novelist has found neat
motive for his forthcoming story. He en-.
lows his hero with the faculty Of foresee-
ing the future, but makes him unable to
disclose to any one what he knows
Yam PHoN LEE says that cyan Phon"
signihes "Wealth by Imperial Favor"
tappears, however, that Van has obtain.
ed his wealth by matrimonial favor. His
aewly-wedded wife 10 worth 100000
PHILADELPHIA woman has been indic,-
ed for eaves-dropping and tattling ITO the
common nuisance Of the citizens of this
commonwealth and against the peace and
dignity OF the common wealth Of Pennsyl.
vania."